Now in its Third edition, A Practical Guide
to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice goes through the steps of receiving the prescription, preparing it, and completing the compound. The book provides a source for contemporary practice previously found spread out over journal articles, legal documents, standards of practice, specialty books, and textbooks.

Highlights of this edition include:

• a more comprehensive section on sterile dosage forms and their preparation
• expanded discussion of medication errors; processing tools for improving compounded preparations and reducing errors
• a new chapter on systems of measurement and basic pharmaceutical calculations
• a new section on veterinary pharmacy practice

Patient cases with the sample compounded prescription orders and parenteral preparation medication orders show typical situations and problem-solving to meet special therapy and patient needs.

A back-of-book CD-ROM complements the text with study guides, interactive self-assessment, and multimedia demonstrations of compounding procedures for key chapters. A companion Website will include resources for instructors.

Contents

Processing the Prescription

1. Prescription and Medication Drug Orders
2. Labeling Prescriptions and Medications
3. Controlled Substances
4. Expiration and Beyond-Use Dating
5. Drug Utilization Review and Medication Use Evaluation
6. Patient Counseling

Calculations

7. Systems of Measurement and Introduction to Pharmaceutical Calculations
8. Quantity and Concentration Expressions and Calculations
9. Evaluating Dosage Regimens
10. Aliquots Calculations
11. Isotonicity Calculations

Compounding Drug Preparations

12. General Guidelines for Preparing Compounded Drug Preparations
13. Selection, Storage, and Handling of Compounding Equipment and Ingredients
14. Selection and Use of Weighing and Measuring Equipment

Pharmaceutical Excipients

15. Pharmaceutical Solvents and Solubilizing Agents
16. Antimicrobial Preservatives
17. Antioxidants
18. Buffers and pH Adjusting Agents
19. Viscosity-Inducing Agents
20. Surfactants and Emulsifying Agents
21. Colors, Flavors, Sweeteners, and Scents
22. Vehicles for Liquid Preparations
23. Ointment Bases
24. Suppository Bases

Nonsterile Dosage Forms and Their Preparation

25. Powders
26. Capsules, Lozenges, and Other Solid Oral Dosage Forms
27. Solutions
28. Suspensions
29. Liquid Emulsions
30. Semisolids: Ointments, Creams, Gels, Pastes, and Collodions
31. Suppositories

Sterile Dosage Forms and Their Preparation

32. General Principles of Sterile Dosage Form Preparation
33. Ophthalmic, Nasal, Inhalation, and Irrigation Solutions
34. Parenteral Preparations
35. Total Parenteral Nutrition

Veterinary Pharmacy

36. Veterinary Pharmacy Practice

Compatibility and Stability

37. Compatibility and Stability of Drug Products and Preparations

Appendices

• Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions and Medication Orders
• Nomograms for Determination of Body Surface Area from Height and Weight
• National Center for Health Statistics Growth Charts
• Isotonicity Values

Index

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